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TIL the caribbean island of Montserrat celebrates St Patrick's Day as a national holiday and festival in honor of a slave rebellion that occured on that date in 1768

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kOWPm TIL John Joseph Merlin invented roller skates in 1760, but hadn’t designed a way to make them stop. On his first demonstration, he crashed into a mirror and broke the skates.
VmQp TIL the Comic book code of 1954 specified that “Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.”
MeKXb TIL that Taco Bell once trolled McDonald's with a commercial featuring 25 real-life Ronald McDonald's endorsing their brand.
grwkD TIL that Nazi food scienists made synthetic butter (margarine) out of coal
VMGXB TIL that more modest two-piece swim suits were popular in the US before the government ordered a 10% reduction in fabric used in woman's swimwear in 1943 as wartime rationing.